Just brilliant - it's going to be hard to top for the best thing I see this year.
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2036 Origin Unknown 2018
While the production quality is generally high, and the filmmakers made some smart decisions in terms of sets and cast to keep the budget low (it's reminiscent of movies like Cube and Exam, using what is effectively a single set), the script is painfully lacking in exposition or explanation. Katee Sackhoff does her best with some terrible dialogue, but ultimately the final twenty minutes - a combination of ideas ripped-off from Asimov and visuals from Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey - doesn't answer any of the questions it needs to.
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Welcome to Marwen 2018
Enjoyable, but just a tiny little bit too on-the-nose with some of its dialogue and musical choices.
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Mortal Engines 2018
10/10 for costume and set design. 0/10 for plot, dialogue, and believable character development.
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This Is the End 2013
Some of the jokes miss the mark (or more frequently just go on too long), but overall it's just dumb fun.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017
When the main source of dramatic tension for a sizeable chunk of time is, "can this ship keep on flying very slowly away from the other ship", your movie might have problems.
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